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M. B. OOOHRAN, SOHOOL'DESK AND SEAT.

No. 74,504. Patented Feb. 18, 1868;.

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- Letters Patent .No. 74,504, dated February 18, 1868.

"IMPROVED SCHOOL-DESK AND SEAT.

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Be itknown that I, MILTON B. Commas, M. D., of Davenporgin the cohntyof Scott, and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and.- useful Improi'ements in an Extended School-House Seat and Desk and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,,and exact description thereof, reference hein'g had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, like 7 letters indieeting'like'parts vwherever they occur.

' Toenable'others'skilled in the artlto construct and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

Figure 1 is a side Vie! of my invention, i v Figure 2 is a plan of the same, and Figure 3 is an endview. I The nature of thy-invention or improvement consists in taking ordinar school house-chairs .or seats, with an iron pedestal as support, and, after they are placed at the proper distance apart, securing to them a continuous desk, of any; desired length, which desk is' connected or. fastened to tops of said chairs or seats by means of iron hraces-andotherwise, so as to make them substantial. The desk is made of long boards, by cutting the places for scholars to sitiin on one sideflaid boards to be from fourteen to eighteen inches in width, according to size or. number; Each scholarhas a separate seat, and can get to it and'bael: to the aisle again mneh easier than by the common method. a

'agiare the chairs; the desk; e, the place out out in the desk bfor the scholar to get to and sit in chairs a a. d d are iron pedestals. or standards, showi ng where the seats q-q are secured. a c" e" are iron braces, showing how and where deslrs'nd chairs are secured togthenfj shows where shelves or pochetsifor hooksare located. gisa band around top of desk, and h it, fig. 2, are theaisles.

Having 'thus described mjninventiom what claim, is-F V The continuous desk-board h, providedhriththe rail g, and shelves or pockets f, in. combination withchairs a and iron braces e e e", irhe'n constructed and arranged for he e, as hereindescribed and 'forthe? purpose set forth. u

MILTON B. COCHBANL Witnesses;

WJL. CARROLL, J. M. mum 

